The Clifton clarion., 1887-06-01
How English Detectives are
 Trained.


 How English Detectives are
 Trained.
 The men who show special ap- titude for the work are first sent out and tested as patrols in plain clothes; afterward they are detach- l ed as divisional detectives. Each of the divisions has it's own detect i've constables, the sergeant being always on duty at the central sta tion. The superintendent, or in spector, is in attendance from g to 5 to receive applications for assist ance and to issue orders. The du- ties of the city detectives are es- pecially difficult and delicate. Now and again, of course, they have to trace out the perpetrators of a commonplace murder or ordinary burglary. But as rule they are chiefly concerned with commercial frauds, where the criminal is pre- sumably as quick-witted as them selves, and has probably taken his precautions against discovery. Generally he has already made tracks and sought refuge in for eign countries. He may have gone where there is no extradition trea- ty; but as there are many disagree ables to be met with among for eigners, whose manners he dislikes and of whose language he is igno- rant, he moro frequently takes a passage for America or Australia It seems so easy to change your name, to caste your skin, and lose yourself in new existence among a great English-speaking popula- tion.
 Even in the former case, and be- yond the range of extradltion treaties, the refugee from justice is not altogether safe. Should the detective follow him up and find him out, existence may be made unpleasant or even intolerable. 
 The agent of the English law can stick to the fugitive like bis shad- ow, and by communicating with foreign confreres, who eagerly lend assistance, can make any continental retreat uncommonly hot AS a matter of fact, success full pursuit and ultimate capture are for the most part mere ques tions of money. If a notorious absconder is not tracked and brought back, it is generally be- cause those who have been robbed and wronged have personal req sons for flushing up the affair. At this moment there are city gentle men, once sufficiently notorious, left to themselves and to their consciences in Spain and in Swe- den, whose present addresses are as well known as that of any re- spectable merchant in the Post Office Directory. But in such 1 cases the police are powerless, un less private enterprise sets them in motion.-Blackwood's Magazine. \ New Way Of Keeping Store Ac-
 counts.
 The retail groceres at Burling- ton, Iowa, are putting into prac tice a new scheme for keeping ac. counts with their customers. A 1 small book of coupons, ranging in value from l to 50 cents, is furn- 1 lshed to the customer and IS charg- l ed to him. When he orders goods | he tears out coupons to the value of the order, in the presence of the l grocer or his clerk, and destroys them. When S5 O. S10 book | of coupons is reduced to the cover, it is good evidence that goods to the value 1t represented have been purchased. It amounts to the same | thing as paying spot cash for every l order, but the customers have the | privilege of paying for the coupon book when 1t is used up. There are quite a good many advantages to be mentioned in favor of this system, and it will probably super 1 ceed in great part the old style of book accounts,
 A scientific writer tells how wa ter can be boiled in a sheet of | writing paper. We edon't doubt it. We have known a man to write few lines on a sheet of writing pa per that kept him in hot water for years.